Job Family:Systems Engineering
Travel Required:Up to 10%
Clearance Required:Ability to Obtain Public Trust
What You Will DoGuidehouse is seeking a Senior
AWS Systems Engineer to support a large-scale federal cloud modernization initiative. This role requires a highly technical, hands-on cloud engineering professional capable of designing, implementing, and supporting secure AWS environments in mission-critical enterprise environments.
This position is ideal for an engineer who combines AWS architecture depth with recent hands-on implementation experience across infrastructure, networking, security, data, and migration activities.
- Design, build, configure, and implement enterprise AWS environments supporting critical business and mission workloads.
- Develop AWS infrastructure across networking, security, compute, storage, monitoring, logging, resiliency, and backup/recovery services.
- Assess existing infrastructure, applications, databases, and integrations to identify modernization opportunities and migration approaches.
- Define target-state cloud architectures and lead implementation across hybrid and on-premises environments.
- Execute migration activities including application/data migration, environment readiness, cutover planning, validation, and operational transition.
- Design and implement secure multi-account and multi-tenant AWS environments using best practices for segmentation, access control, encryption, monitoring, and governance.
- Design and optimize enterprise data architectures and pipelines across AWS, including data models, integration frameworks, ingestion, transformation, and storage solutions.
- Support enterprise data solutions involving relational databases, AWS RDS, object storage, data migration, protection, backup, recovery, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application development, data management, and operations teams to implement technical solutions that satisfy business and compliance requirements.
- Produce solution designs, implementation guides, migration runbooks, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and support documentation.
- Lead technical working sessions to resolve architecture decisions, migration challenges, integration requirements, and infrastructure dependencies.
- Support cloud operations, disaster recovery, high availability, capacity planning, performance optimization, and operational readiness.
- Provide hands-on AWS troubleshooting, engineering support, implementation, and production issue resolution.
What You Will Need- US Citizenship
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
- Bachelor Degree
- Minimum EIGHT (8) years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting complex enterprise IT systems.
- Minimum FIVE (5) years of hands-on AWS engineering and architecture experience.
- Recent hands-on AWS engineering experience deploying, configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise cloud environments. Candidates must have built and supported AWS solutions directly, not solely provided architecture or advisory services.
- Experience serving in senior cloud engineering, systems engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, or solutions architecture roles.
- Strong experience with core AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS/EFS, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and backup/disaster recovery services.
- Experience implementing AWS environments, not only creating architecture documentation.
- Experience designing and supporting multi-account, multi-environment, or multi-tenant cloud environments.
- Experience planning and executing cloud modernization and migration initiatives.
- Strong database and data platform experience including SQL-based systems, relational databases, data migration, and data lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with enterprise data integration, reporting, compliance, audit, or analytics-supporting architectures.
- Experience supporting federal compliance environments, including NIST 800-53, RMF, STIGs, ATO processes, continuous monitoring, audit, and security controls.
- Experience supporting hybrid, secured, restricted, or enclave environments.
- Strong knowledge of Linux, Windows, enterprise networking, DNS, firewalls, proxies, identity federation, load balancing, monitoring, encryption, backup, and recovery.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What Would Be Nice To Have- Active Federal or DoD Top Secret clearance.
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, Security Specialty, Database Specialty, or Data Analytics Specialty.
- Experience supporting federal law enforcement, national security, intelligence, or other highly regulated government environments.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud.
- Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Service Catalog, and enterprise cloud governance frameworks.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and CI/CD tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with data governance, metadata management, lineage, retention policies, and secure data-sharing capabilities.
- Experience designing highly available architectures and disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience with FinOps, tagging strategies, cloud cost management, and performance optimization.
The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
What We Offer:Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
